we are now in the midst of sports festival practice. (will try to take photos since i can't seem to find the ones i took last year). it's crazy though! for 2 weeks, students have half days of classes. the second half of which is dedicated to being tortured outside in the hot hot sun. homeroom classes from each grade level are divided to comprise 3 teams or "color blocks" (red, blue, yellow for my school). then they practice things like marching, cheering (girls), ooendo (traditional dance by the boys), panel flipping (so that the 300ish students in each block create large pictures or kanji characters with their individual colored panels), tug of war, human pyramid building (boys), getting on top of other students' shoulders to fight/wrestle another teams' member who is also sitting on someone's shoulders (boys), etcetc. this would not be allowed in the u.s.
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